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Date:	Mon, 25 Feb 2002 20:17:17 PST7
From:	Sheridan George <s-geo@usa.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: lprportd question

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"Benedict G. Archer" wrote:
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> please excuse the repost. Maybe someone will see a clue in the appended
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> "Benedict G. Archer" wrote:

> > Ben A.
> I've installed the latest printer driver from Lexmark, but the problem
> remains. A W98 machine on the same LAN doesn't have the problem. I'm
> now suspecting the problem is caused by the way I have the LAN
> configured. DSL to a Linksys BEFSR41 (firewall and DHCP server) with a
> SMC7004ABR connected through one of its ports to the Linksys (not using
> the SMC WAN port), and the printer connected to the SMC. Connected this
> way I can't access the SMC firmware from any of the clients, but it

I have a similar set up. SMC7004BR as my cable firewall and an SMC7004ABR as a print server.

If you are using netscape as the browser to log into the ABR you must append ":88" to the IP address.
It is a bug in Netscape per SMC.

> works OK as a switch and print server except for the extra page after
> every print job from an MCP or eCS client. Should I use the SMC as DSL

That extra sheet problem is why I use the BR for the firewall and main printer server (HP 5L located
near the cable modem). The BR doesn't serve up the extra sheet.

I have yet to locate the source of the extra page. Sometimes there are two extra pages one with my
name on it (probably the name I used on one of my computers).

FWIW, my ABR is connected to an HP 855C in another room by a Macintosh. Since this happens on my HP
and your Optra 40 it seems to not be a printer or driver problem. I'm starting to suspect the ABR
instead but I can find no switches in its setup to change. Since I get a sheet with what I think is a
computer name, it might be a "feature" SMC put in the software so multiple print jobs can be seperated
after printing.

I plan to do more testing when school is out for spring Break. One of the tests I plan do is send
some short print jobs and use iptrace to see what happens. If I can decipher the trace well enough,
maybe I can determine if the computer is sending the extra page or not. If it is the SMCs then only
SMC can help us find a way to stop it.

I would prefer to have the ABR as my firewall/main print server mainly because one can set the LAN
side DHCP server on it to keep the addresses it serves up to stay in effect forever. The print server
connected to my Xerox C20 gets a DHCP address. Although the address it was served hasn't changed in 4
months, one of these days it might then I'll have to twiddle the IP address in the printer icon.

Sheridan

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